Join co-author of Team Topologies, Matthew Skelton, and CTO of Container Solutions, Jamie Dobson, for a no-nonsense discussion of internal platforms and why treating your platform as a product is A Good Thing.
Matthew’s talk on Platform as a Product begins at 18’50”
So, what’s the plan?
Jamie will talk about patterns and how they’re relevant to Cloud Native projects. A pattern is an ideal design, articulated according to a uniform template, that addresses a particular need (a deceptively simple concept, we know).
We’ll look at some specific Cloud Native patterns, including Platform Team. Importantly, we’ll review the typical patterns that are involved in transformation, some common combinations, and how companies can begin to experiment with them. This is the surest way that companies can succeed with platform as a product. It will warm you up nicely for Matthew’s talk.
Matthew will then explain why the platform-as-product approach can be a game-changer for organisations building and running software-enabled products and services. Using ideas and patterns from Team Topologies—including Thinnest Viable Platform, team cognitive load, and the evolutionary team interaction modes—he explains how organisations like Adidas and Uswitch have successfully used the platform-as-product model to accelerate and simplify the delivery of software at scale.
WTF is Platform as a Product?
Savvy organisations (yours?) are seeing the value of treating their internal platforms as products. But WTF does it mean to treat a “platform as a product”? What are the benefits? Why the heck would an organisation adopt this approach?
